One More "Learning Curve" Vid....

I can't specifically credit the soundtrack, but it's definitely Aphex Twin, just which track??? 

All I tend to do on random videos, well, any that I want a backing to, is to check out the video length, then try to match it up to a track-length in several different music folders....Sometimes the closest to it wins! Simple, yet effective, just not necessarily to everyone's taste.




Note to self: Update your CV.

Photobox Album

My Photobox Album

How on earth do pro photographers manage to keep up with all the computer admin? I know I take a reasonable amount of pictures, and delete a lot too, the ones I keep are sorted into categories, then sub-categories, and so on... The sub- that these came from is essentially "my pictures/scenery/Holme Valley & Area" but in "scenery" alone there is 10+ Gb and just under 2,500 pictures.... currently in "My Pictures" there are 75 Gb and over 27,000 pictures. What a mind-mash to try to go through them to pick out the ones I really think have "potential". How on earth did I think I could manage it in just a few days???? 

I'm tempted to bypass my current system, and instead rely on Lightroom's tags feature, but until I've used it on a substantial number of images how will I know if it's what I'm looking for? Even if it is, then I've still got the daunting task of (over the course of time) going back through everything and tagging/losing/binning/favoriting etc etc. 

27,000 images? Hmm, that seems high, even for a happy snapper... I tried Visipics to search out duplicates, and boy oh boy there are over 1000 of them to try to sort though too. Old scans mostly, ones which I'd kept the "hard-copy" and then forgotten I had already scanned them....then put them in a new folder to work on, then some new category and so on. I learned my lesson when I binned 100s of negatives after scanning them, WITHOUT properly backing them up sadly, so decided to keep the best originals after scanning. Great in theory, until you come to try to tidy the shelves up and can't be certain whether or not you've already scanned.....Cue chaos.

Anyway, currently there are 177 pictures in the above Photobox album. These will be added to as I go along.... The thing is I keep wanting to edit some of the older ones as I come to them, which kills even more time, this is more or less a full-time job!

Roll on Spring when the gardening really does pick up!

Learning Curve(s)

December. Trains

World So Full

September

Time Out (cont'd)

Across the valley.

18th August, after the tornado....

Time Out. more to follow, perhaps

 Perhaps my most sacred & favourite place.

 Fell Ponies. No comment.

I'm not going to name it, as I don't want it to get spoiled or desecrated by non-believers. I believe. Do you?

"Tour De...." Well, not France.

All hell is steadily breaking out in Holmfirth and the surrounding district..... "Le Tour" is imminent.

 So, we've got new roads, bunting and yellow bikes and things done out in a strange red-spotted livery everywhere.... silliness abounds....and it's hard to be negative when there's so much frenetic activity going on, so I won't.

 Instead of facing the anticipated hundreds of thousands of people expected to land in the district in the next 48 hours, closed roads, restricted roads, (not even allowed to cross the road in front of the house fer gawd's sakes... ) and all the shenanigans expected.. it seems that the best idea is to hit the road before it all gets too mad and go seek tranquillity. The East coast is calling..........

 Briefly we went for a quick look-see at the nearby area, dozens of fields converted into campsites, marquees for beer, barbecues, bands, goodness knows what else.... and crazily enough the third or fourth cycle race of the last couple of weeks, together with a running race up Holme Moss at the same time...it's a wonder nobody has died yet..

I got dropped off and went and harassed a few rabbits, a hare, and a dozen over friendly cows, with their disinterested if extremely well built bull. To be fair we didnt really harass the cows, they were more interested in the dogs than the other way around, and it was a bit of a relief to make it to the stile in one piece.. Gwyn needed a cool off afterwards on the way home after that.....

 

This last is totally unconnected, apart from the fact that it was from a couple of days ago, and in the same folder as the above, which were today's. Sheds, can't beat them.

 



 There really is a collective madness infecting the area though, and if there's one category of film that I've seen too much of it's the whole post-apocalypse scenario....kind of leaves you feeling edgy when people all start acting out of character at the same time. 


  

The shed was going to be the last picture, but then I saw that this was the 100th post on this incarnation of the blog, so I thought I ought to mention it.... this is the view of the far side of Holme Moss, for those who don't make it that far. Just see what you missed. Happy 100th post though.

"Phone-Hacking"

 

 (Clearly not one of mine)

If you left your car keys in the ignition and it was stolen, or if you left your house unlocked when you went on holiday, and then were burgled, the police and press would laugh you off the page. So why is it when thousands of people don't change the standard issue PINs that are freely available from manufacturers and service providers on their mobile phones do the police go ape that people choose to open the unlocked doors??

Why on earth is there no criticism being aimed at the Royal security staff who clearly didn't advise their charges that they should change these PINs on an urgent basis?

Quite rightly charges were not only brought against an incredibly small number of key people, and an odd conviction or two made, but really, in context these are 100% politically motivated, though exactly by whom and why remains less clear. The Edward Miller Band ought to think before commenting that Cameroon brought a criminal into Downing Street, especially in view of the war criminal who occupied it prior to Brown Gordio.

Certainly "illegally" accessing people's phone messages is wrong, and immoral and so on, and downright revolting when a missing child or murder victim is involved, but in the scheme of things, the service providers and phone manufacturers have to bear some responsibility in loudly reminding everyone to personalise their PIN to avoid such things happening.

Honestly, if the majority of people are stupid, and someone takes advantage of the fact, then millions of people buy their papers because they've "got the up to date goss..." who really is at fault?

(Definitely not one of mine)

Having said all that, Cameroon can't apply "legerdemain" by blaming Levison, as the enquiry, admittedly set up as a direct result of the (then-) emerging "scandal" was specifically denied the opportunity to consider "phone-hacking" as part of it's report due to the subject being under consideration in a criminal case...You can't make this shit up. I nearly choked when The Miller Band claimed it was "all smoke and mirrors" and sadly recalled the death of Dr Kelly, the fictional Iraq dossier on WMDs that never actually existed, and the Bliar & The Campbells-are-coming years.

Headline: Some people are thick, shock horror, someone else gets nailed for it.

If there's this much crap in the news, what is actually happening that we aren't being told about?

A picture of a tit. (Probably a sad and lonely tit who'll almost certainly never procreate, or do anything other than masturbate himself to death.)

 (Also clearly not one of mine)

 As a foot-note: If it turns out that all this inappropriate accessing of people's phones was via some piece of clever software that throws out zillions of PINs until they find the right one, then "phone-hacking" might be the right way to describe it, but I doubt it somehow. Until that does happen, then nothing has actually been "hacked".....I return to the "open-door" analogies above...sorry, can't help myself on this I must be cross or something.

Second fot-note, I had a picture removed from above, hence the triagular symbol above. I'm replacing it with the original and another two, just to MAKE A POINT ABOUT CENSORSHIP.

I do not claim any ownership over any of the last three pictures, clearly they are already credited by the red-strap-line at the bottom of each. Freaky-deaky. Well, I supposed it helps to prevent them breeding....

Quiet NIght

(I can't take credit for the picture, the original source is in the top left corner, but I wanted to see if Blogger would host a GIF and actually animate it, which FB won't)

I say "quiet night", but I've just spent over £1000....ouch.

It won't be as much "ouch" when we've had a little overseas adventure though... :)

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